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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2024-26744) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2024-26744) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/03/2024
Created
06/07/2024
Added
06/06/2024
Modified
06/06/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/srpt: Support specifying the srpt_service_guid parameter

Make loading ib_srpt with this parameter set work. The current behavior is

that setting that parameter while loading the ib_srpt kernel module

triggers the following kernel crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000

Call Trace:

<TASK>

parse_one+0x18c/0x1d0

parse_args+0xe1/0x230

load_module+0x8de/0xa60

init_module_from_file+0x8b/0xd0

idempotent_init_module+0x181/0x240

__x64_sys_finit_module+0x5a/0xb0

do_syscall_64+0x5f/0xe0

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ELSA-2024-3618
  • CVE-2024-26744

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